May '77 Corridor Grateful Dead Listening Path
Cornell is the signpost. This is the neighborhood.
5 stops · 1977
Boston makes Cornell feel inevitable rather than miraculous. Cornell is the famous night. Buffalo answers the next day at a different pitch; Pembroke Pines loosens the language in the Florida heat; Winterland closes the run back home. Hear them together and Cornell becomes part of a corridor, not a monument.
Path tags
may 77 · cornell · boston · buffalo · pembroke pines · spring 77
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Stops On This Path
1. May 7, 1977 · Boston Garden
May 7, 1977 at Boston Garden · Boston, MA, US · Post-Hiatus era · 4 recordings listed · Archive listeners rate it around 5
The night before Cornell proves the run was already operating at altitude.
Setlist includes Bertha · Cassidy · Deal · Jack Straw · Peggy-O · Minglewood Blues · Mississippi Half Step · Big River · Tennessee Jed · The Music Never Stopped.
2. May 8, 1977 · Barton Hall, Cornell University
May 8, 1977 at Barton Hall, Cornell University · Ithaca, NY, US · Post-Hiatus era · 13 recordings listed · Archive listeners rate it around 5
Hear Cornell as context, not a museum piece. The second set earns its reputation.
Setlist includes Minglewood Blues · Loser · El Paso · They Love Each Other · Jack Straw · Deal · Lazy Lightning · Supplication · Brown Eyed Women · Mama Tried.
3. May 9, 1977 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
May 9, 1977 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium · Buffalo, NY, US · Post-Hiatus era · 6 recordings listed · Archive listeners rate it around 5
Buffalo answers Cornell instead of chasing it, which is why it belongs here.
Setlist includes Help On The Way · Slipknot! · Franklin's Tower · Cassidy · Brown Eyed Women · Mexicali Blues · Tennessee Jed · Big River · Peggy-O · Sunrise.
4. May 22, 1977 · Sportatorium
May 22, 1977 at Sportatorium · Pembroke Pines, FL, US · Post-Hiatus era · 3 recordings listed · Archive listeners rate it around 5
Pembroke Pines loosens May 77's precision in the Florida heat.
Setlist includes The Music Never Stopped · Sugaree · El Paso · Peggy-O · Minglewood Blues · Friend Of The Devil · Lazy Lightning · Supplication · Ramble On Rose · Dancin' In The Streets.
5. June 9, 1977 · Winterland
June 9, 1977 at Winterland · San Francisco, CA, US · Post-Hiatus era · 9 recordings listed · Archive listeners rate it around 5
Winterland closes the corridor back home, after the month has already changed the story.
Setlist includes Mississippi Half Step · Jack Straw · They Love Each Other · Cassidy · Sunrise · Deal · Looks Like Rain · Loser · The Music Never Stopped · Samson And Delilah.